George Lucas is a Communist

Actually, I can’t back that up.  But I couldn’t help but wonder after seeing the Lucasfilm Animation logo…

              

You decide.

I’ve landed

I’m teaching character design and some other things at a college here in the Twin Cities.  Just thought I’d mention it if anyone out there is still reading.  Now that I’m seeing some free-time in the future, you can count on seeing some more content here.

Demo Reel 2007

Well here’s a sampling of the animation I did when I was at WCP. The last two clips are sort of for posterity. I’m not particularly thrilled with the animation due to the massive time crunch we were under on the project, but I was the AD, so I thought I’d throw them in.  Email me if you want an up to date copy of my resume as well.

If only I had more storage…

WordPress is doing  a contest to give away a 10GB upgrade to your storage capacity.  The idea’s to be creative and have the best answer.  So here goes…

I’ve said before that I’ve got an animated short in the works.  So anyone who’s done that before knows that there are concept drawings, production notes, schedules, working files, animation tests, scripts… basicaly a ton of stuff.  So what I’d do is upload all that info to make my WordPress blog a proper living, breathing production journal.  I’d continue to update the site with notes as well as custom scripts that I’ve liked, progress reports and all sorts of fun stuff.  It would contain everything for my short.  Sort of a completely open and accessable animation production pipeline.

It’s either that or I’d use it to implement my plan to take over the world with howler monkeys.

-D!

My scenes from “Hairy”

So I finally got my scenes from the Bug Rangers video I worked on up for everyone to look at. This is all of them. I came on the show in the middle of crunch time and looking back I see all the holes and the learing curve is pretty steep. But overall, it was a great experience. Check it out and leave a comment. One caveat. The scissors motion that Grampa does was not my idea.

Ryan = Usher and here’s why

We give Ryan a hard time about being the biggest Usher fan ever. He still is, but here’s why.

Phil-osophy

My friend Phil has had a blog going for a while now and if you want to laugh till milk comes out of your nose, read it. I did and milk came shooting out of my nose. I wasn’t even drinking milk! So get the Windex ready for your old CRT and click here.  And you should really upgrade that old CRT while you’re at it. I mean, was the earth’s crust still warm when you got that?

-D!

New Project

Being a new dad and all, I don’t exactly know how this is going to work. But since abandoning my student film (yes, I did abandon it and won’t be picking it up again) I have had an itch to do something more professional as well as spend more time in story development, design and overall technical know-how. I will post some stuff periodically as I progress in production. I’ll probably be working on this for a long time, and in doing so, I’m gonna need to like the story and the design. That’s part of the reason I’m not doing Buzz’d anymore. It really lacked in those areas I value. Anyway, stay tooned and you can keep up with my new work.

Happy Clicking!

Tate!

Tate Joshua Blom came into the world on Wednesday, August 2nd. He was 9# 3 oz. and 21.5 inches long. Momma’s doing great now and Tate’s as healthy as we could ever hope for. Talk to you all soon.
-Drew

My First Post on WordPress

Loving the new options way more than Blogger. Anyway, just something short. I saw this and nearly wet myself. Anyway, still homeless and we're still pregnant, but we've got family to stay with and our new place will be ready July 1. Until I get some more time, enjoy this.

-D!